I was right to make this my default icon!

I read f_fa's SW threads sometimes, because they can be interesting, but tbh they're so allergic to bad "Jedi Critical" takes that most of them have come around the other side to "the Jedi cannot be criticized for anything, ever, and if you think any of them made any poor decisions at any point with regard to Anakin ARGLEBARGLE GENOCIDE." There's one valiant soul in a recent thread (not me, I almost never actually post there) trying to argue that Obi-Wan chopping off three of Anakin's limbs and leaving him to burn alive under the assumption that he'll eventually die is morally questionable, actually, and the responses are all defensive nonsense.

I honestly find it weird for anyone to come away from the OT with the conviction that Obi-Wan never fucked up with regard to Anakin, but add in the prequels and ... whew.

(I'm kind of curious if there's any association between "well Anakin deserved it tho" and "Obi-Wan only said Luke's refusal to assassinate his father was condemning the galaxy to Palpatine's rule as a tactic, he wasn't actually wrong" and "but telling the truth about Anakin at any point before Luke left for Cloud City would have been super awkward, so it's okay that Luke had no idea he was attempting patricide." Obi-Wan's failures are what make him so interesting!)

(...relatedly, my best friend and I had a long phone call about SW today, as we frequently do, and I stand by our shared opinion that, while there's a lot of interesting material in the prequels-as-they-are, a potentially very interesting alternate approach would have been a narrative that took Obi-Wan as the clear protagonist from the beginning to the end and focused on him as the flawed tragic hero of the piece in a more subtle way than Anakin is.)